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I Don’t Build Author Platforms For Anyone.

Meghan Stevenson
3 min readMar 8, 2022

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I don’t believe in building author platforms and audiences for you.

Here’s why.

A lot of would-be authors see platform- and audience-building as a means to an end.

The thinking — which some folks say out loud — is

I know that I need to build an author platform to get my book published — BUT.

. . . you’ll never have to promote yourself or your book again?

. . . people will find you with zero marketing through energetics, osmosis, or an algorithm?

. . . your book will have magical powers and do all the promotion, marketing, selling, and showing up for you?

None of that is even remotely possible or true.

Very simply:

If you do not have an audience to directly promote, market, and sell your book to, there’s nothing my team and I can do to make you appealing to literary agents and editors at major publishing houses.

That’s the bad news.

But the good news is that the size of your audience and author platform is completely up to you and entirely within your control. My business is anchored in the belief that entrepreneurial and expert authors today have the tools, data, and ability to build an ideal…

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Meghan Stevenson
Meghan Stevenson

Written by Meghan Stevenson

I help entrepreneurs, experts and thought leaders create book proposals that sell to major publishers. I also run marathons, save senior dogs and love the Mets.

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